Nostalgia Trap Podcast
1) Digital Wolf Pack (Livestream Preview)
This week on the Nostalgia Trap Livestream: Conspiracy theory mind-melt reaches the upper echelons of power, AI-generated savagery plunges further into the toilet, Chuck Schumer and Zohran Mamdani fli...Show More
2) News Trap 9.26.25 - The Thing Around the Corner w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
On this week's News Trap update, Justin joins me to discuss the question on everyone's mind: when is the fever gonna break? As the cartoonish reality of Trump's second term takes on increasingly demen...Show More
3) Ep 421 - First They Came for Jimmy Kimmel w/ Judd Legum
The fallout from Charlie Kirk’s assassination continues to mutate into an escalation of the right’s multi-front authoritarian campaign. On this episode, I talk with Judd Legum, journalist and creator ...Show More
4) HATE F#CK NATION (Livestream Preview)
America is taking a turn into a dark cul-de-sac, and many liberals are hoping that Stephen Colbert and John Oliver's sunnier version of the national id will somehow, magically, win the day. But will i...Show More
5) News Trap 9.12.25 - The Least Among Us w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
Here's our attempt to put Charlie Kirk's assassination in the context of the algorithmic dream world we inhabit, the queer libidinal dimensions of love and murder, and the larger politics of incompete...Show More
6) Ep 420 - All That Jazz w/ Monte Montgomery
Like many hip youngsters of my generation, at some point in my twenties I got Jazz-pilled by Beat literature, with writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg name-dropping bop-era musicians like Mil...Show More
7) 120 MONTHS - FEBRUARY 1990 - Primus, The Cramps, Everything But the Girl, Oingo Boingo, Guided By Voices, Midnight Oil
February 1990 was a wild month in music, with new album releases from Oingo Boingo, Everything But the Girl, The Cramps, Primus, The Highwaymen, Midnight Oil, and Guided By Voices. All paying subscri...Show More
8) News Trap 8.15.25 - Capital's AI & Crypto Endgame w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
Global capital is currently putting more resources into building AI infrastructure than any other mass project in human history, with little evidence that AI can ever turn the kind of profits needed t...Show More
9) Ep 416 - America Eats Itself w/ Xaq Frohlich
Xaq Frohlich is Associate Professor of History of Technology at Auburn University. His work focuses on issues relating to food and risk at the intersections of science, law, and markets. In this conve...Show More
10) News Trap 6.13.25 - Scoreboard w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
Is the fight against Trump's rising authoritarianism in the streets? Or in the courts? Why not both? At the five month mark, Justin joins me to survey the damage, and to assess the left's strategies i...Show More